Mason injures back in fall from makeshift staging

Defendants: unaware of jerry-rigged set-up; $325,000 settlement

On his first day on the job as a mason, the plaintiff was working at a site in Connecticut. The employer had erected staging, but because it did not allow the plaintiff to reach the necessary height to complete the work, he and/or his co-workers jerry-rigged five or six pallets and planks on an outrigger ...